From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: compress files patch for mac/make-package
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:29:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umzl3p6al.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ESjyc-0004Tb-3s@fencepost.gnu.org> (rms@gnu.org)
> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:37:38 -0400
> Cc: romain@orebokech.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > The long term plan is to get rid of the gzip dependency for good and use
> > zlib to provide decompression primitives directly in Emacs.
>
> Then let's postpone compression of .el files until that goal is
> reached.
>
> I see no reason to postpone it.
The reasons to postpone it were spelled out by Kim: this is an
unnecessary and somewhat controversial change, which could conceivably
produce bugs, while the advantages it brings are minimal. IMHO, we
shouldn't make it until after the release.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-21 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-17 20:06 compress files patch for mac/make-package bryan d. o'connor
2005-10-18 3:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-18 6:00 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 2:43 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-19 7:16 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 20:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-19 20:13 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-20 4:54 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-20 7:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-10-20 7:20 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-20 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 23:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-21 9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-10-20 9:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-20 9:32 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-20 11:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-20 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-19 20:16 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 21:37 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-10-20 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-20 23:37 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-21 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-22 4:18 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 10:42 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-29 11:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-29 14:14 ` Romain Francoise
2005-10-19 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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